Legal Opinion

Paitry v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided May 18, 1916PublishedCited by 15 opinions

Appeal from Jefferson Criminal Court. Heard before Hon. Wm. E. Fort. Harry Paitry, alias, etc., was convicted of murder and he appeals.

1Opinion of the Court

SOMERVILLE, J.—(1) The record in this case contains no bill of exceptions, and we cannot review the action of the trial court in refusing a number of written charges requested by the defendant and set out in the record proper.(2) This case was tried after September 22, 1915, and, under the provisions of the act approved on that date (Acts 1915, p. 708) amendatory of section 6256 of the Code, the transcript should not have contained the order of the court for the special, venire, or fixing the day for the trial of defendant; no question thereon being raised before the trial court. We call…

2Cited by15 opinions

  1. Anderson v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1922
  2. Hardley v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1918
  3. Charley v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1920
  4. Catrett v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1933
  5. Scott v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1934

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